Trump's Cabinet has been rocked by a number of ethics scandals — here's a complete guide

Most of the officials who have faced scrutiny had been the target of complaints about their travel practices.

Tom Price, who had served as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, resigned in September after exposure of his practice of taking pricey charter jets instead of flying on commercial planes.

The most recent scandal, involving Veterans Affairs chief David Shulkin, centered on the official's acceptance of tickets to the Wimbledon tennis tournament.

Eight months after taking control of the executive branch, the Trump administration saw its first Cabinet member — Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price — resign after questions were raised about his conduct in office.

But he might not be the last — given the number of official probes facing other Cabinet members.

The Trump administration has seven other Cabinet or Cabinet-level officials either currently, previously or potentially under scrutiny from in-house ethics watchdogs.

Most of those inquiries relate — as Price's case did — to the use of pricey travel options at taxpayers' expense.

Other cases relate to personal investments, relatives' interactions with the official's agency and the leak of photos.

The White House declined to comment.

Tom Price

Price, before becoming HHS chief last year, had been a Republican congressman from Georgia.

The IG found that Shulkin improperly had a subordinate handle personal travel plans for him and his wife during the trip, improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets as a gift on that trip and allowed his wife to travel with him at taxpayers' expense.

The IG report also found that Shulkin's chief of staff had made false statements and altered a document so that Shulkin's wife could travel with him without having to personally pay for the jaunt.

Shulkin, who initially was contemptuous of the report, now says he will reimburse taxpayers for the cost of his wife's travel, and will pay the woman who gave him the tennis match tickets.

Scott Pruitt

Just days before the Shulkin probe findings were disclosed, The Washington Post reported that records show taxpayers had to pay at least $90,000 during a period in June when Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt traveled first class from Washington to New York and to Cincinnati and Rome, with his aides flying coach. Pruitt traveled from Cincinnati to New York on a military plane at a cost of $36,068.50 to catch his first-class flight to Rome.

Pruitt's ticket alone for the flight from Washington to New York cost $1,641.43.

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt

Pruitt, who flew first class to an event in New Hampshire on Tuesday, told the New Hampshire Union-Leader newspaper that he has to fly first class because of security concerns stemming from some incidents that occurred when he took office last spring.

Pruitt, who is a Cabinet-level official, has faced an ongoing EPA inspector general's probe of his taxpayer-funded travel since last August.

A group of former EPA officials said that Pruitt has spent 43 out of 92 days from March to May out of his office and that he repeatedly traveled to his home state of Oklahoma at taxpayer expense.

Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in November, in response to the IG, said that he believed his department supplied the requested documents and that Zinke "inherited an organizational and operational mess from the previous administration."

Steven Mnuchin

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's travel practices are not under investigation by his department's inspector general's office.

But they had been.

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reacts during a press conference after attending the Franchise Expo West in Los Angeles, California, November 2, 2017.

In a report issued in October, Treasury's IG said that Mnuchin's eight flights on military jets, to destinations that ranged from West Virginia to Italy, at a cost of more than $800,000, were legal.

However, the lawyer who conducted that probe said that "just because something is legal doesn't make it right."

The IG's report into Mnuchin found that while the travel was approved by the White House, the justification for the secretary taking military jets "in almost all cases," was thin, at best.

Mnuchin's travel on military jets included a trip to Fort Knox in Kentucky with his wife, Scottish actress Louis Linton.

The Mnuchins ended up reimbursing the government for the cost of Linton's travel after furor erupted over Linton's sarcastic Instagram response to a woman who had criticized the actress over a photo she posted from that trip.

The Post also noted that Carson's wife, son and daughter-in-law have attended HUD meetings.

Carson, in a tweet, said that he asked for "an independent investigation to put to rest these unfounded biases." Carson also said his family and he were "under attack by media questioning our integrity and ethics."

Earlier, the Post had reported that a firm run by Carson's wife had won a $485,000 contract from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services without a competitive bidding process.

HUD's IG's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC on Thursday on the question of whether it was formally investigating Carson and his family, as he had requested.

Rick Perry

Last month, a former Energy Department photographer filed a complaint with that department's IG's office, claiming he was illegally fired for leaking to newspapers pictures he took of Energy Secretary Rick Perry hugging and meeting with a coal company executive.

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Secretary of Energy Rick Perry testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, October 12, 2017 in Washington, DC.

The photographer, Simon Edelman, said "that he exposed wrongdoing by releasing the photos since he believes Perry's actions were corrupt and a quid pro quo on behalf of Murray Energy Corp head Bob Murray," according to a story published by The Hill.

Edelman said that a proposal Perry made to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in September, which would have benefited coal and nuclear plants, was one of the recommendations that Murray made during the meeting that the photographer took pictures of.

The photographer told The Hill he wants Perry investigated by the IG's office for "criminal corruption."

The Energy inspector general did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC about the status of Edelman's complaint.

A spokesman for Perry told The Hill that Edelman's claims are "ridiculous."